Converting a not-a-greenhouse to a chicken coop

[Alaskan]

Bad ladder!

 

[hosspak]

Except for painting the bare boards on the outside, the coop is done (barring any redos I decide to do...)

Oh, there will be redos, add-ons, and "why didn't I think of that"s. Unless you like frustration and change, stop reading BYC now... lol

The nestbox is waterproof. I got to buy a blowtorch

We already had the roofing roll, and I also needed to bridge a gap between the gutter and the edge of the roof (nice waterfall down the inside back wall when it rained when I was working inside before we got the girls) and the blowtorch was much cheaper than the gutter tape stuff plus something to cover the nestbox roof.
Yeah, I still need to add that to the nest box covers. I will do that tomorrow....or the next day...

After a couple of months using a handsaw, drill, crowbar, hammer, and a blowtorch, I hurt myself for the first time this afternoon while folding a ladder. I knew there was a reason I hated ladders...

Oh yeah, the ladder attacks, they will sneak up on you if you turn your back on them. Just show her the blowtorch, she will know who's boss....

 

[Alaskan]

I thought of you the other day when a child locked me into the chicken shed.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

It was supposed to rain Saturday--and did, quite heavily, in the early morning. So this week, I got the outside painted.

Back and front. Pop doors are solid gray.

I finished the trim just as dusk was starting Friday, and I hadn't started shoveling the gravel from the rubble pile yet--the ground in front of the coop is bare dirt, and will turn into a mud pit if nothing is done. But it was getting dark so fast that I knew I wouldn't be able to see by the time I was half done. Then I saw the 2 sand bags that had been in the way for a year and a half. 15 minutes, a pair of scissors and a hoe later...

The sand castle is courtesy of my younger daughter.


We got 2 more hens yesterday, from the same flock that we got our first 3 2 weeks ago, so no quarantine. I did put up a getting-to-know-you wall by zip-tieing panels of our old Superyard on top of each other (the panels are 26 inches tall, and everyone has clipped wings).


Our new girls.

 

[hosspak]

We got 2 more hens yesterday, from the same flock that we got our first 3 2 weeks ago, so no quarantine. I did put up a getting-to-know-you wall by zip-tieing panels of our old Superyard on top of each other (the panels are 26 inches tall, and everyone has clipped wings).


Our new girls.

Sand was a good idea....if you could put more down before the gravel you will be even more satisfied...
They look great, what breeds are they? One on right looks like a Buff, other one looks like Golden comet...
The old shed looks pretty good..

 

[AmyPaperlady]

They're both red sex links.

 

[hosspak]

They're both red sex links.

Ok, they are the same thing, Golden Comets/ red sex links. You will like the large pink eggs...